Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Kane

Acting is pretty much my whole life.

Mark Durkan

We want to see a credible report telling us there is no current or ongoing illegal activity from the IRA.

David Siegel

We ... want to resolve the dispute over the dismissed workers; however, that will not include the reinstatement of those who instigated and incited the walkout action and who harassed and intimidated those employees who chose to come to work during this difficult time.

Ashley Goforth

We want to promote activism through different mediums.

Kitty Lagareta

We have seen David McClain in action for the past year and a half and feel strongly that he is the right person and the best person at the right time to take the university forward.

Andy Brough

We have seen continued bid activity and earnings have been reasonably robust. The market has had a great run in the first quarter.

Tom Harp

We have seen a definite correlation between illegal activities of all sorts. Between criminal code activity and civil code activities, we see a correlation.

Dan Dinges

We have secured the rigs necessary to complete our program, a program that focuses on more development activity and less risk. The current forecasted activity level calls for 391 wells, with increased activity in each region including expanded drilling on each of the acquisition plays purchased in 2005.

Elizardo Sanchez

We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.

Jon Daniels

We have no active trade discussions going. Danny didn't play last year; we need to see what kind of shape he is in. There's nothing wrong with competition.

Brad Kullman

We have no active talks going on involving Austin Kearns, and we have no plans to trade him.

Rob Butcher

We have no active talks between the Reds and the Indians involving Austin Kearns. Our baseball people met for the last few days and decided that unless we are overwhelmed with an offer, we want to see Kearns play here.

Peter Dawson

We have nine venues that are active for us and the way it seems to work is that the Open comes to St Andrews about every five years and to each of the others about every 10.

Kekoa Paulsen

We have some active reservoirs, so we keep a close eye.

Matt Kiefer

Whenever you have the type of shooters (Ohio State has) and the inside play in (Terence) Dials, its tough to defend them. They do a lot of good things as far as being active and getting their hands on loose balls on rebounds and things of that sort.

Terry Christensen

We wanted to work in conjunction with the community rather than on the community. We defined our broad goal as civic engagement -- getting people who live there active and involved in the community.

Trevor Rabin

We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black partner, so I grew up very aware of the struggle going on. Coming from that background, it really gave me chills to have my music be a part of the election of the first black American president.

John Richard

We were a rag-tag bunch. The 7th Battalion was short on men and had called in all the reserves they could. I hadn't been on active duty since the end of WWII. I left Salem by train on a Friday night and the next Friday, I was headed for Korea.

Bruce Buck

We are almost certainly going to appeal. We believe that attending the meeting (with Cole in January) did not go over the line... we think that the sanctions are totally disproportionate to the alleged sin.

Ali Liebegott

Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.

John Roberts

Mr. Jones suggests in his letter that you would have reacted differently to an alleged civil rights violation, and in a thinly veiled threat, asserts that the alleged insensitivity of the administration to fundamentalist Christians will not go unnoticed by that sizable voting block,

Ariel Sharon

The Prime Minister's Office and the Defense Ministry have no knowledge whatsoever of an alleged approval to build 3,000 dwelling units in Ariel and we really don't know where this number comes from,

Jeffrey Kerr

PETA has no involvement with alleged ALF or ELF actions. PETA does not support terrorism. PETA does not support violence,

Richard Scudamore

I am sure the inquiry will wish to speak to him and anybody else who has raised similar comments. There is a great deal of speculation regarding alleged irregular payments in transfer dealings. I cannot sit here yet with irrefutable proof it doesn't happen or that it does. That's why the inquiry has been called. We don't have the power to insist Sven-Goran Eriksson sits and talks to us but having said that I would imagine he has no reason not to.

Philip Morris

Given the decision to decertify in a case also based on alleged fraudulent misrepresentations to consumers, we think it is clear that this court will decertify

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

Bill Thomas

If this alleged attack occurred in a manner in which described by the prosecutor and law enforcement, then there will be DNA present.

Kamisese Mara

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

Jerrold Nadler

The other thing that I wanted to say -- and that I will say at this point, even though the chairman is not going to listen,

Kevin Yoder

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

The Edge

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

Natalie Massenet

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

Ahmed Tugod

So far there's nothing new. We heard from the AU chairman the same proposals we'd heard before from the AU mediation team. It was very disappointing.

Gary Weiss

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

Evan Osnos

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

Harry Redknapp

I am hoping we still have a chance of getting him. The chairman is working on it and that's all you can ask.

Mike Twomey

What these companies give in contributions is just a pennies-on-the-dollar investment compared with what they get from the Legislature and Public Service Commission in terms of favorable legislation and rulings.

Bryan Lee

The proceeding has been suspended. It's not at all unusual for the commission to suspend a proceeding with a prospect of a settlement.

Michael Twomey

The real issue: Is the Louisiana Public Service Commission going to make the company wait one or two years to recover these dollars.

Louis Stokes

Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

Scott Cowen

Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.

Paul Tagliabue

We have had this commission for a couple of years now on cardiovascular health,

Abdul Jalil

This proves that opposition's demand for reforms of the caretaker government system and the Election Commission is authentic.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

You will bear a commission from God, for you have received a call from God.

Adam Quinton

With three major U.S. telecoms under Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, we thought little more could happen to dampen already miserable investor sentiment in the space. Now events at WorldCom leave us virtually lost for words.

Catherine Hardwicke

The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for women filmmakers generally,

Jacques Chirac

The real blackmail is what Chirac has done. I am very disappointed that Chirac has influenced and directed the meeting.

Bob Stein

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

Laila Robins

I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Claire Tomalin

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

James Chessen

She is so smart, it's scary. She's very much a theoretician, but it's always directed toward what's practical and possible.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have never directed anything for the stage. I studied for three years in the theater, and it was a very, very scary experience to direct live, being so vulnerable without the possibility to control things, to be so exposed.

Melanie Mayron

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Coleen Rowley

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.

Rick Fox

This will be an ongoing process and will take up to a year to close.

Craig Johnson

We perceive this to be an ongoing threat that will be there for many years to come.

Virginia Kice

We have an open and ongoing investigation so we're not talking a lot about it.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Jessica White

Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

Mark Philippoussis

Obviously, I'll do whatever it takes to get back,

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Fred Eckhard

We know that the violations can be controlled.

Kevin Murphy

Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty.